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1985 Škoda 130 Rapid [Typ 743] Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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◊ 2016-06-27 23:30 |
Private import? |
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◊ 2016-06-27 23:35 |
Was there ever an export to Canada? -- Last edit: 2016-06-27 23:36:24 |
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◊ 2016-06-27 23:35 |
rjluna2> More info. .gif ";)") http://skodacanada.ca/SkodasInCanada.html Link to "autoweek.com" ingo> Filming Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. -- Last edit: 2016-06-27 23:37:17 |
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◊ 2016-06-27 23:37 |
Recently I read that Skoda might come back to US Link to "www.motor1.com" |
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◊ 2016-06-27 23:38 |
Well, "might"... |
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◊ 2016-06-28 00:17 |
at least, they're nice now.... i see the Octovia and the Superb at about every international hockey tournament ( when they're played in Europe ) and they look good |
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◊ 2016-06-28 00:24 |
The quality is good, too. At least nearly every technical bit is original VW/Audi - but the cars cost several thousands of € less. Similar situation with Renault and Dacia. |
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◊ 2016-06-28 00:36 |
... or several millions of £ less at the moment. |
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◊ 2016-06-28 01:08 |
Made for CDN |
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◊ 2016-06-28 01:18 |
^^ initial panic. Nothing more important than freedom. Self-governance or Euro bureaucrats, not a tough choice. As if Europe will want to trade any less. |
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◊ 2016-06-28 01:27 |
Memories,memories.... well except the last 2, never saw any... Funny they say the Micra had a 4speed auto but one of my friends mom had one and it doesn't count further than 3 One of my neighbor once had a Dacia 1410 wagon ( which needed a stick to keep the hatch open ) and a Skoda sedan |
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◊ 2016-06-28 01:39 |
For Europe the problems will be uncomfortable, but manageable, the brunt has to be dragged by the British people. For us €-Europeans the British gold rush will rise. Or if you talk nasty (but Mrs.Merkel has said, we wont be nasty  , let's say: body stripping. Not unthinkable, that there will be slight similarities with the sitiation in the DDR after The Wal fell down. Back then crooks and dealers spooked all over the country and have coaxed the people -often just a bit hard money was enough- to sell the antiques and classic cars. I check now Link to "www.autotrader.co.uk" Link to "www.autotrader.co.uk" daily (but it will take a time, until toys has to be sold. As for example http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/ too. Of course here http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property/Scotland.html will come a slump, too. Nice for my wife and me, as it's our dream to emigrate to Scotland. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 01:43:49 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 02:08 |
ingo - possibly the only person in the galaxy who is considering the choice between a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow and a Reliant tricycle. We salute you (but also reserve the right to laugh hysterically at the same time). |
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◊ 2016-06-28 09:10 |
@ingo, if you leave it a while, you may be able to move to Scotland and continue using Euros as currency, but there will be checkpoints on the border with the outside world. In terms of leadership, one poison dwarf is very much like any other. I'm a bit concerned about the cost of spares for my Mercédès, so may trade it for a Kia Picanto. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 09:12:40 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 15:07 |
If I might also add a thought on the choice between a Cheshire built Royce and a Staffordshire constructed Reliant, the larger car may be cheaper to run if you choose carefully, as some of the better Shadows and Ts are showing signs of awakening interest and may start to appreciate. On the other hand, if you run out of petrol in the tricycle it is easy to just kick it along the street like a tin can until you reach a filling station. As a result of recent happenings I am now applying for an Icelandic passport having changed my family name to Walterssohn in honour of my late Dad who spent his entire life stuck with the forename Walter, but who wasn't, unfortunately, Walter Owen Bentley. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 15:09:54 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 15:58 |
Greetings WalterssohnFromReykjavík. But as that takes about 20 minutes to type and spellcheck, you'll probably just become wfr. Still, when you get your Picanto, we can start an imcdb Kia Owners Group. But how are you going to cram Sturgeon and Corbyn (or whatever they're called) into the back?? Maybe you need a Ceed ... |
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◊ 2016-06-28 16:21 |
@johnfromstaffs: yes, this is our idea: looking for property in SCO after the GPB and especially the absurd high UK-real estate prices went more down, and then wait until the EU is back and maybe even the € is introduced. The border checkpoints will probably not in that style*: Link to "www.wellesley.edu" or with http://www.nva-forum.de/nva-board/uploads/post-5-1082282337.jpg on the A68. A problem may be the toll-fees when you travel with valuable goods over an EU/non-EU border. But surely an independent SCO would activate the ferry-route between Edinburgh an Hamburg again. As a personal service for old IMCDb-fellows I promise to help you with Benz-parts. I'm a good smuggler  I've fooled not only those blokes http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3223/2951175303_e547ae8920.jpg?v=0 http://www.taz.de/picture/369663/948/grenzer.jpg (no, it isn't me on the photos), I've already broke also British rules  Years ago, when it was forbidden to bring fresh food into Britain, I've smuggled bread, salami, Wurst and other goodies. For famished German expats, but also for my survival. But -thanks to the EU!!- these bad times are gone. Since you have Aldi and Lidl, it's possible to get humane food in the UK.An Icelandic passport is not too helpful, as it's also non-EU. The most valuable passport in the world is ...well..., yes, the German. And the Swedish: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php A propos Iceland: His name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbeinn_Sig%C3%BE%C3%B3rsson means phonetic in German "Winninggoalsson" Really!  *Idea so save costs: reactivate the Hadrian's Wall. It fits quite bearable. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 16:23:30 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 18:32 |
Kia Owners Group. My friend has just bought a Kia Sorrento, a few months old demonstrator with which he tows a caravan. Perhaps we'll see how it goes before doing anything too rash. I had seriously considered buying a hybrid C-class estate but the low price offered for my current car put me off, especially when I calculated that it had depreciated at about £1 per mile. It should last for about 50 years at my current annual mileage of 6,000 so it will have to stay on the drive for a bit longer. |
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◊ 2016-06-28 18:46 |
ouch... Canada is 22nd... i like better the IIHF ranking .. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 18:56:03 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 19:26 |
An Aldi has just opened very near my house, things like baked beans and bread are cheap, and the 28 day aged ribeye steak is very good value, but their range is limited so we do one shop at Aldi for all the stuff that's cheap, and one at Sainsbury's for the items Aldi doesn't stock. I think I may be in danger of being chucked out for irrelevance, so goodbye for now. -- Last edit: 2016-06-28 19:39:23 |
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◊ 2016-06-28 19:38 |
This is common over here, too. But note, that there are two parallel Aldi-chains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi "Aldi Süd" offers a better range better than "Aldi Nord". The "Aldi equator" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi#/media/File:Aldi_equator.svg goes along where I live. In my village we have the better equipped "Aldi Süd" - with the result, that every week I got lists from my colleagues from the northern side of the equator, what bargain offers I shall buy for them When travel to Holland or Britain, it's the same. Then I buy stuff, which is not available here. Do you know, that in Scotland Aldi even has own Haggis?  |
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◊ 2016-06-29 15:07 |
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◊ 2016-07-02 16:39 |
:evil: Your opinion is the reason for the actual European problems! Nationalism is out, it shall be an "Europe of the regions"! If you want to be a proud Staffordshirean (correct?) you have to trash your Rolls and purchase Robins and Regals! For making Britain great again and Europe proud again!  |
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◊ 2016-07-02 17:49 |
I voted to leave Europe, there are too many decisions made by unelected people, see "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership." As you know, I have a Bentley, I have also owned a 1964 Reliant Regal 3/25. I know which car I would rather drive. |
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◊ 2016-07-02 18:50 |
With the result, that GB is screwed now. You let the Scots out and you never will be able to capture them again. And the financial rats are leaving the sinking ship, too, of course together with their money and their well paid jobs. The biggest advantage is, that we other Europeans can see now, what's happen, when the populist-morons becoming successful. You may call it body-stripping or legacy-hunting, but as it seems I'll come again to England for https://www.beaulieu.co.uk/events/international-autojumble/ For car-stuff and also some old furniture, my wife is interested in. |
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◊ 2016-07-02 19:01 |
Blimey. jfs and I share political perspectives and voting records. Next thing you know, we'll have an Iceland vs Wales Euro 2016 final. (For what it's worth I support UK having close mutually beneficial links with Europe, but the EU as a structure has become an all-consuming monster. And while I still support Scottish independence, I am very wary of our needs being trampled underfoot as the EU would cynically exploit our desperation to break clear from UK as and when we knock on the door and ask to join). |
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◊ 2016-07-02 19:22 |
We had better leave discussion of the relative merits of Mizzes May and Sturgeon (alphabetical order) to some other place. The Scots are welcome to go, hopefully taking with them the Northern Irish and the Welsh, and we shall see where the £ sterling settles then. The FTSE 100 closed up 73.50 on Friday evening, at the highest it has been since 2011, doing my investments no harm at all. I had already bought my Euros for this year's holiday though. -- Last edit: 2016-07-02 19:30:07 |
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◊ 2016-07-02 19:33 |
Yes, better move it. Done: Link to "imcdb.opencommunity.be" |
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◊ 2016-07-02 19:51 |
An apparently genuine sign in Sunderland![[Image: sunderland.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/10314/sunderland.jpg) |
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◊ 2016-07-02 20:05 |
Soon known as "the English Detroit" What coin we would throw for the questtion, where the next Nissa-generations will be assembled, we wont see one of these two: http://www.pandaamerica.com/upd_images/gbg2009henry8.jpg P.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGK8IC-bGnU Link to "www.thesun.co.uk" -- Last edit: 2016-07-02 20:33:44 |
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◊ 2016-07-02 22:48 |
Trade is a sword with two edges. A reduction in the £/Euro exchange rate will mean my next car might be a Lexus rather than a Mercédès, and my next holiday might be outside the EU. It also means that the next Nissan, built in what is already one of the world's most efficient factories, would present even better value to the outside world. |
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◊ 2016-07-02 23:57 |
"World's most efficient factory" means nothing. How many of those were closed down in the past? Same with Ellesmere Port. Why not? GM never makes bones about such minor matters. Think about Bochum, Antwerpen and several other plants. |
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◊ 2016-07-03 00:39 |
Now I didn't vote for Brexit but the biggest problem for UK manufacturers would be high tariffs with Europe. Are the Germans really going to turn their back on one of the biggest export markets for Audis, BMWs, Mercedeses, Volkswagens and Fords by high tariffs? In 2015, 167,000 Audis, 168,000 BMWs, 335,000 Fords, 145,000 Mercedes and 224,000 Volkswagens were sold here. No wonder the German unions are already lobbying hard. -- Last edit: 2016-07-03 00:47:33 |
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◊ 2016-07-03 01:40 |
Yes, this may happen. It's not lucrative to sell goods in countries with high tariffs and/or weak currencies. As the selling-price cannot be pushed up endlessly, the net-price has to be lowered - but also not endlessly. And when the structure of the customers will decline (which will happen in GB), a market country can become unattractive very soon. |
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◊ 2016-07-03 02:16 |
But there could easily be some degree of cancelling-out effect. UK exports 80%(?) of the stuff we build, so if those get tariffs on entering EU and tariffs get charged on stuff entering UK result could be more UK built stuff stays at home, replacing some import volumes. So we buy more Jags instead of BMWs/Audis, Range Rovers instead of huge blobby Audis, Nissans/Toyotas/Hondas instead of VWs, MINIs instead of Fiat 500s, Vauxhall could start expanding the Astra versions made at Ellesmere Port instead of bringing them in etc. If we start doing our own trade deals outside EU, other markets might increase. What could get stickier is engine and drive-train factories - various Ford and BMW plants for instance. It won't all fit together neatly, but probably a lot more will balance out than the current confusion suggests. -- Last edit: 2016-07-03 02:56:25 |
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